A Pearl man said he spotted a man urinating in the middle of his street, and when his son asked him to stop, the man pulled out a gun and opened fire.

Witnesses said the man was standing outside his truck about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday on Hidi Lane. Billy Jordan said the man appeared to be drunk. Jordan’s son confronted the man and told him to stop urinating in front of women and children.

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“Shooting at somebody, him being drunk, it could have (gone) in that house, or it could have went in my house. It could have hit one of my younguns or grandkids,” Jordan said. “It didn’t scare me as much as it worried me about one of my kids getting hit. My son ducked behind that big old tree when he fired.”

Jordan’s son wasn’t hurt.

Pearl officers found a .40-caliber shell casing in the street. Witnesses said the shooter was driving a older-model green or blue Z-71 pickup truck with flames on the side.

Pearl and Brandon police arrested Billy Harrison about 9:30 p.m. Thursday at his house on Woodgate Drive, authorities said.

Investigators said they recovered a gun from Harrison's house that matched the description of the one used in the crime.

Harrison is charged with indecent exposure and discharging a firearm within the city limits, police said. He also had a warrant for simple assault by threat related to a previous incident, police said.

Harrison was taken to the Rankin County Jail, where he was being held on a $21,000 bond.